Zalman Abramov

Zalman Abramov (6 May 1908-5 March 1997) was an Israeli politician who served in the Knesset from 1959 to 1977 as a member of the General Zionists, the Liberal Party of Israel, Gahal, and Likud.

Biography
Zalman Abramov was born in Minsk, Minsk Governorate, Russian Empire (now in Belarus) in 1908 to a Jewish family, and he made aliyah to Mandatory Palestine in 1920. He studied at the Western Reserve University in Ohio, and he served as Vice President of the Zionist Students of America organisation between 1931 and 1933 and as Chairman of the Israel-United States Friendship League from 1950 until 1964. In 1959, he was elected to the Israeli Knesset as a member of the General Zionists, and he would later become a member of the Liberal Party of Israel, Gahal, and Likud. He was a major thinker and theoretician of Israeli liberalism, being a convinced supporter of Chaim Weizmann. He died in Jerusalem in 1997.